Netanyahu shared campaign ad claiming rivals will persecute right-wingers, close media outlets

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared a campaign ad yesterday that claims his election rivals plan to silence right-wingers, fire senior officials appointed under the current government and close right-wing media channels if they win.

The clip, produced by the staunchly pro-Netanyahu Channel 14, argues that Naftali Bennett and Gadi Eisenkot will form a coalition with left-wing and Arab parties and will therefore be forced to stop acting militarily against all the country’s enemies and to open negotiations for a Palestinian state.

It claims they will carry out arrests of those who express right-wing views online and will close news outlets, including Channel 14, while purporting to base these predictions on remarks politicians within the anti-Netanyahu bloc have made.

The video claims Netanyahu’s rivals will pass a temporary measure allowing them for 100 days to fire senior public officials, such as the heads of the Shin Bet, Mossad and Israel Police, as well as hundreds of police officers “suspected to be right-wing.”

However, Netanyahu’s own government has attempted to make some of those moves against its political rivals. Last week, the Knesset approved, in a preliminary reading, a bill giving government ministers “sole discretion” over the selection of candidates for senior appointments, including the attorney general and heads of the Shin Bet and Mossad.

“The government holds full and exclusive authority to appoint or refrain from appointing a person to a senior position in the civil service,” the legislation’s explanatory notes stated, adding that the terms of such officials “shall terminate within 100 days” of the formation of a new government, unless extended — and that the government would have the power to remove senior officials “at any time at its sole discretion.”

The government has also made moves toward closing media outlets it perceives as adversarial such as Army Radio and the Kan public broadcaster, though those are publicly funded outlets rather than private ones.

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